Make Bright The Arrows

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)



Make bright the arrows
Gather the shields:
Conquest narrows
The peaceful fields.

Stock well the quiver
With arrows bright:
The bowman feared
Need never fight.

Make bright the arrows,
O peaceful and wise!
Gather the shields
Against surprise.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABab xcxc AdBd
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 239
Words 40
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism more…

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